de-scent those pet skunks
10 things we didn't know last week – "Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience." [BBC Magazine]'minimalist data visualization'
The Falling Times[via Ample Sanity]
Beware of links to external news sites with heavy and/or intrusive advertising.
misdirected comments
GumbabyThe Gumbaby Project is an attempt to gather together a directory of comments posted on blogs (and guestbooks, and other inappropriate places) by people apparently led astray by search engines. Certain threads on some sites seem to attract confusion over and over again. People arrive at a blog, mistake the author for a celebrity, an expert, or an authority, and they begin talking as if that's who was listening.
daily photo, no archives
The Daily Nice – "Every day I show a photograph of something that made me happy." [DesignNotes]wrong tool...
Man hurt using gun to change tyre – "A US man has injured himself in both legs after attempting to loosen a stiff wheel-nut by blasting it with his gun..."'some minor bugs' but 'internetty'
The Whole Internet – "a map of the entire Internet"[Ireneo's Memory]
rooftop statement
Headington Shark – "The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation.... It is saying something about CND, nuclear power, Chernobyl and Nagasaki."small kitchen?
DishMaker – "a new kind of appliance that can replace dishes altogether by making cups, bowls and plates on demand and recycling them when you’re done" [r-echoes]a timely observation...
Design Observer: A Sequence in Time01:02:03 04/05/06
This number sequence in time will not occur again
until 2106.
'idea unlikely to catch on'
Fair Play: Refs Told To Take BribesFootball referees in Nigeria have been told they can accept bribes.
But they should be sacked if they let the cash - of whatever else they are given - affect their decisions.
grizzly indeed...
Grizzlies Introduce Baseball's Best Burger!The Grizzlies and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts have teamed up to create “Baseball’s Best Burger.” The burger, which was debuted at the Grizzlies' December 10th sale, consists of a thick and juicy burger topped with sharp cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon. The burger is then placed in between each side of a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut.[jonabad.com]
